skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a fundamental flaw in your argument. You are complaining about the world and giving it a power to be your "selector". You are waiting for the world to select you. Businesses are businesses and like it or not they only care about their bottom line. It does not matter whether you have a degree or a high school drop out as long as you make them money. Its bad that you are waiting for someone else to recognize your talents or anyone else's. Take matters in your hands. Do anything but don't complain about the world. Its not going to change for YOU.

and frankly if someone is smart enough to play politics and get the business done by being a manager, why shouldn't they get rewarded ?

I am technically strong and loved every project I did in collage but I also recognize the value of business people and their marketing and sales skills. Learn from them and be good in business and engineering.
Ever since my favorite Youtube Channel, SFDebris, moved to another video site after having been wrongfully flagged twice for copyright violation, I've been hoping that 'fair use' would be included.
Book: Seamless Object-oriented Software Architecture [pdf]
Care to show some signs of appreciation by those who complain?
1) Make that ol' fashioned signup link just a little more obvious...
2) Could the two welcome emails be combined (can't the activation link come as part of the second if the subject line makes it clear)?
3) I couldn't help but laugh when "What are your best memories of graduate school? Worst memories?" came up as a prompt under "Life". There's something amusing about this question being posed so innocently after "Did you have a pet?".

Anyway I think the site is actually pretty fun, and I'm glad I signed up despite not being able to tell what it was just from the homepage (might want to change that). I was just about to go to bed and jot down a few things I wanted to write about the coming morning but after poking around I may just spend some more time poking around with some of the topics here.
At least you can build your own scripts around this stuff. Building LaTeX for me goes like this:

I use vim, change a line, and hit ":w". My git-onNotify [0] script detects a change and issues "make show". The Makefile uses rubber or latexmk to build a pdf, then issues "gnome-open $PDF", which opens the new version in my pdf viewer. If my screen is tiled, the preview on the side just updates.

Essentially, I just save my tex file and wait for the change.

[0] https://github.com/beza1e1/dot/blob/master/bin/git-onNotify
True but bankruptcy would be the step after failure. They want their money but doesn't mean they will get it back.
You already have another radio: the Geolocation stack in the phone itself. It can't tell you precisely what side of the door you are on /now/ but it can certainly be used to infer how long you've been near the house and thus, where you're likely to be.

So say if I've been GPS "home" for five minutes it assumes 'inside'. Then when a Bluetooth sense happens next it is extremely likely I'm going outside. Do not unlock.

Same three minutes without a BT sense pass, it's now nearly certain I'm "outside" still instead of going in and out. Coarse GPS event happens showing the phone is moving from the home geofence? DEFINITELY gone. Do unlock when the next BT sense happens.

Edit: I don't think I'm being clear enough on this telephone keyboard. I feel that with enough GPS logic and location history you should be able to infer when the user is likely home and thus disable auto-unlock. This all explodes when two locks are used, though... Or two authorized users... Or two egress points... Hrm. This is hard. :)
I played around with implementing something like this on linux (with xmodmap specifically) and didn't find anything conditional. I did figure out how to make holding right shift and tapping left produce a left parenthesis, and vice versa produce a right.

This is from memory, so bear with me if its not perfect, but I setup xmodmap with

keysym 50 = Shift_L parenleft Shift_L
keysym 62 = Shift_R parenright Shift_R

Xmodmap allows you to define multiple symbols for a key. The first symbol is what you get with no modifiers; the second is with shift; the third is with Mode_switch (or AltGr, depending) and the fourth is with Shift and AltGr. There's sometimes although a 5-8, but that varies by platform and I haven't done enough experiments to really nail down what those are for linux these days, OR if those are tied to mod1/mod2/etc. instead of shift/altgr/mode_switch or specific modifiers like that.

Anyway, all the keysyms always defined the first three anyway (no modifiers, shift, and Mode_switch) and some defined the fourth. I don't have or use a Mode_switch key (yet) but I may try that out as a 'Greek' key or such, but since 90% of the time I'm programming I'm not sure if I'd ever use it.

My lines above defines parenleft as the symbol to send if key 50 (the left shift key) is pressed while the shift modifier is active. So, I can use the right shift to turn on the shift modifier, and then left shift turns into a left parenthesis key. Similarily, I can use the left shift key to turn the right shift into a right parenthesis.

So, to type a pair of parenthesis back to back "()" I press right shift, press left shift, release right shift, and tap right shift. It's certainly more awkward than what Steve was able to setup, but hey, its where I've got so far.
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Once you're logged in, it looks sort of like a Kickstarter full of... blog entries. Some could be considered actual essays while others have pretty much posted lists, extended anecdotes, there's an iPhone 5 review, etc... The main feature I guess is that you can cycle through prompts from an array of categories to give you something to write about. Of course in the early stages they're pretty hit or miss, but I imagine there is potential if users ended up carving out their own niches– you might start to see more things like "How did you start programming? What do you think were the most important things that helped you grow?". Of course they're just prompts, and you should be able to write about anything you want.
Glad to hear that you liked it! And I hear you on combining the welcome emails
I second this. They need to at least provide a sentence explaining what I can do with it.
One thing that could help is a surge of tech-oriented startups. Startups in India tended to be copies of well-established models in the U.S. Things are beginning to change. I've personally seen a few startups which have innovative and tech-heavy products founded in India which caters to the U.S. market.
Actually this is what STEM fetishization gets you. Its a cautionary tale for what happens when you have nothing but STEM as the bar for worth and value.

Your STEM degree and then masters dictates how people perceive you, provide marriage offers, respect you and a huge swathe of other social niceties.

Its what creates our student suicides, competitions to place kids in a strategic school to jump start their STEM education.

Its the root for tution/cram classes that start 2 years before the final exam and absorb vacation and free time.

Its the cause of having a huge amount of useless engineering schools that just print out degrees after you pay a hefty fee.

Further you have non-STEM people doing STEM. They don't care about the subject and never will. For them slope is a pointless concept.

The teachers are over worked and have to correct a million different papers. On top of that since there is finally a national level test - so people just start teaching the test.

This generates tonnes of unmotivated rote learning. I've seen a student draw a circuit diagram, by starting at the lower left corner and sketch upwards to the right.

He may as well have been forging a picture from memmory.

Its frustrating.

With regards to disruption. I know of several pushes to disrupt the industry.

Someone I know is starting an extensive skillling course targeted at slums - the aim is to train plumbers, electricians and secretaries.

Education had also recently been the flavor of the month for investment purposes (I think early in the year). Right now I don't think thats so popular.

At the end of the day though, most of the education disruptions seem to ignore the lessons of education - namely that the fundamental unit of chaos in society is human beings.

Startups balk at this and then try to solve the easier problem of matching the requirements of an education board and their metrics of learning.
If you understood what this article was whining about, you wouldn't have posted this pointless tirade against anyone who likes Apple products.
Whether or not the government should pick winners and losers is separate and unrelated to the question of market efficiency. Why can't I simultaneously acknowledge that externalities produce less than efficient markets and that government subsidies produce deadweight loss?
With no info at all it feels like a dare.
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A social feature they could adopt from G+ hangouts:

You can watch youtube videos while doing group video chat. Anyone on the chat can pause, push a button to speak over the audio, etc. It' great for sharing videos with people and having the "sitting next to you on the couch" feel simulated.

For example, I could see myself using a Netflix version of this feature to watch a few episodes of a TV show each week with someone if we'd started watching the series in college while rooming together, but went our separate ways without finishing the series.
> Sorry these are precisely the kind of guys who end up being mid level managers in large corporates.

If it's any consolation, those large corporations get what they deserve: they end up with middle managers who cheated their way out of an education. There's some justice in this.
JSONBurner For RSS Feeds
JSONBurner For RSS Feeds
http://jsonburner.herokuapp.com/source?feed=http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

JSONBurner is an online service to convert any RSS feed as JSON. This makes development on Mobile, Responsive web platforms very effective and faster.

Applications built on languages like javascript, ruby that provide first class support for parsing JSON, will find this service very effective.

Usage

Pass the RSS URL as an argument to the service.

Example 1 (RSS URL has no params)
http://jsonburner.herokuapp.com/source?feed=http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

Example 2 (RSS URL has params)
http://jsonburner.herokuapp.com/source?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fax.itunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStoreServices.woa%2Fws%2FRSS%2Ftopalbums%2Flimit%3D25%2Fxml

http://jsonburner.herokuapp.com/source?feed=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FILoveMadras%3Fformat%3Dxml

Note: It is always safer to have the URL encoded.
Well, I completely agree with kamaal's comments as well as the information presented in the article. In India, especially in engineering colleges, people are mostly interested and encouraged to somehow get HUGE GPAs and secure well paying jobs. The real calibre of these so called engineers are found when they go and work for non standard companies (read as not Wipro, TCS, Infosys, Tech Mahindra etc). I was educated by an interviewee that a IPv4 address is 256 bits by someone who claims to have 6 years of work experience as a Juniper Administrator.

The first thing which is taught in the "so called companies" (refer above) is to follow the process. They don't give a fuck about the outcome. Just follow the bloody process. And this idea is incorporated right in college. No one bothers to ask questions. And if someone does, then they get into the bad books of the teachers. I was failed in "Computer Networks" because I used a Soekris board + OpenBSD PF for implementing a firewall which was my third year project while everyone else had compiled a Linux distro with IPchains (remember IPChains and NOT IPTABLES and this was in 2003).

Now lets talk about employers. I had worked for 4 startups and 2 HUGE multinationals literally people are treated like slaves. They are expected to work 24/7. I am a Unix Administrator and I was expected to come to office 8 in the morning and leave at 1 in the night, that too after pleading with the manager to let me go. The reason I was made to work like a maniac was, I was the guy who understood the internals and others were merely sitting behind their desks.

The result? I threw in the towel and have decided to go for a MS. I do not intend to work for anyone in India ever again.
As of last quarter, Tesla had $777M in assets and a whopping $715M in liabilities--leaving a net balance of only $64M.

Given that their balance sheet is decreasing by an extraordinary $30M a month, that would have left only two months until the company was insolvent. No wonder the U.S. government wants their $465M paid back more quickly than planned.

The company has lost over $850 million since being founded in 2003.
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You're "forgetting" the $15-20B in tax carry-forwards that are typically lost in bankruptcy. And, by stiffing some public pension plans who owned GM bonds, that bankruptcy increased the taxes that those jurisdictions will have to pay. (That money went to the ordinarily unsecured pensions, Fiat, and a couple of other places.)

GM and Chrysler's assets would have been bought and put to use.
Thank goodness he wasn't talking about Nikola. I was about to have a fit.
> because of the complicity from professors (it is trivial to figure out whether someone has done the project or outsourced it, but they don't care)

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

A lot of professors join teaching during the gap between graduating and getting a job. They are neither motivated or smart enough to figure these things out.
I'm not based in the US and I find the situation is reversed.

I have an app (Market Access) for my Android phone that allows me to control what network gets reported to the Play store, so I can install apps from wherever - I just set it to T-mobile US and I'll get the US store.

When I had an iPhone, many apps weren't available locally. I had to buy a $10 gift card (purchased with a US credit card) from a dodgy site in the far east. I used that to set up a new Apple account, and ended up juggling stuff between the two accounts. The only way to add credit to the US account was via more (200% markup) gift cards. Apple chases after the gift card resellers, so locating a reliable supply is difficult. I ended up mostly downloading free apps from the US store.
My point was that Apple's strategy has been to keep ahead of the pack by breaking ground. The ground has been catching up, despite Apple's patent lawsuits. I'm just concerned with their future in the post-Jobs era.
Anyone who has worked for a big business knows they are not cost effective. Also externalities don't magically make business profitable, they just move costs.
After I saw the white-label Kickstarter thing on app.net I wondered if there was anyone out there offering an embedded service. Doesn't look like there is.
Nope, I'm in Boston.
But how did they get oversubscribed in the first place?
> When the government set up and fostered the development of the Internet, was it picking winners and losers then, too?

The total expenditures then were a small fraction of what we're spending now.

Do you really think that the ROI today is as high as it was then?

Do you really think "govt spent money well once" implies "govt money spent now is well spent"? (It's also false that "govt money was spent badly in the past" implies "govt money spent now is badly spent".)
See the thing is that often at least for me when I want to save a picture it's because I like it and want to use it as a background, the trouble with printscreen is that it only captures the picture at your screen resolution not the photo's resolution so you end up with a grainy unusable image... if someone goes through the trouble of making a picture uncopyable I give up immediately, it's just not worth the hassle.
Note to Steam users: Use store.steampowered.com/?cc=us (or other country code)

My only credit card is US based, and so I was pretty frustrated for a night trying to purchase one of the bundles from my humble Yokohaman abode...
Well, if nothing else, I'm sure he can find solace with all his money, spaceships and sports cars from his sport car factory.
Storylane is an effort to create a library of human experiences. technically it works like a publishing platform built socially from the ground up.
Your logo is similar to: http://codegram.com/
i actually like this better than the other "pure CSS" examples i've seen. in a sense, i think of this as an interactive lesson to illustrate a box shadow hack that could conceivably be useful
About the removal of YouTube app from iOS 6

1. This is already reported during the beta days. NDA being only a 3 capital letters and all.

2. Google submitted YouTube app to iTunes App Store, and it was released on September 11th, 2012.

3. John Koetsier, a writer for VentureBeat that also consulted on technology, social media, and marketing for many years; apparently was either living under a rock since September 11th, 2012 or just whoring for page hit.

4. Did I mention page hit whoring?
Learning to embrace systems failure
> I'm using total government revenue over total personal income as a proxy for the tax rate.

Which is absurd because about half of US govt income comes from "not personal income tax" sources.

> That includes some taxes ... like sales tax

hold that thought.

> If you live in Taxtopia, the story ends there, but on average if you're a US citizen you're paying another 19% in local, property, and sales taxes, for a total of 38%.

You're double-counting sales taxes....

And, your computation for 70% is missing those local, property, and sales taxes, which puts your number at closer to 90%. (Since those state and local taxes actually pay for a significant fraction of the income assistance that you're advocating, it's curious that you think that they'd go away.)

However, your 19% "other" is also high.

The highest sales tax is over 9% but most states are considerably less. However, sales tax only applies to post-tax income and doesn't apply to all purchases. For example, it typically excludes food and housing, which is 20-30% for most people. Higher income folks spend a smaller fraction of their income on food&housing, but they more than make up for that by spending their money on other things that aren't sales-taxed. As a result, sales tax as a fraction of income is at most 5%.

The highest state&local income tax marginal rates may be 15%, but typical is closer to 5%.

Do you really think that the average property tax burden is anywhere near 9%? (I'm very property-heavy and my property taxes are less than 5% of my income.)

Note that a significant fraction of the property taxes are paid from income that you excluded above, namely biz income.
I heard about this recently, iirc it's new to the 3DS. I was surprised, because in the past Nintendo systems have been pretty apathetic regarding regional restrictions. I have two Japanese DS lites which play fine (Japan and US games, others too presumably).